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TIL that the Guinness World Record for the tallest stack of M&M’s is… five

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p8lD8 TIL of the term "Nerd Prom" and the three events it refers to: San Diego Comic-Con, White House Correspondents' Dinner and American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting
0wmyA TIL about "Ludonarrative dissonance," which is a term used to describe when a video game's narrative conflicts with its gameplay. As an example, in BioShock, the theme of self-interest comes through its gameplay while promoting the opposing theme of selflessness through its narrative.
R7vx4 TIL Mel Brooks was a producer on the movie The Elephant Man, but his name was intentionally uncredited as to not lead audiences to believe the film was a comedy
ypQJ TIL Charles Redheffer was an American inventor who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine, He was later exposed when an engineer found a hidden cord that led to an upper floor. Upstairs he found an old man who was turning a hand-crank with one hand and eating bread with the other
WKMN TIL Around the 16th century, there was a chamber in the fortress of Biertan (Romania) where all the couples that wanted to divorce were forced to live with only one item of everything: one bed, one spoon, one chair, etc. before breaking up. Only one couple in 300 years ended up divorcing.